VOICE OF DEMOCRACY AUDIO ESSAY CONTEST
2010-2011 Theme
“Does My Generation Have a Role in America’s Future?”
Entry Deadline
Nov. 1, 2010
Created in 1947, a Voice of Democracy (VOD) grant module is an audio-essay competition for tall propagandize students in grades 9-12 which annually provides some-more than $3 million in scholarships. The first-place winner, who competes with all a first-place VFW Department winners, receives a $30,000 grant which is paid without delay to a recipient’s American university, college or vocational/technical school.
Besides competing for a tip grant prize, as good as alternative inhabitant scholarships trimming from $1,000 to $16,000, any Department’s first-place leader receives an all-expense-paid outing to Washington, D.C., Mar 5-9, 2011, sponsored by Target.
The National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed this module upon a NASSP National Advisory List of Contests as well as Activities for 2009-2010. The Voice of Democracy module is written to inspire nationalism by permitting students a event to voice their perspective in a 3 to 5 notation letter formed upon an annual theme.
How to Enter:
Students can come in by submitting a compulsory entrance form (click upon a couple in a gray club upon a right), along with their letter as well as recording to a internal VFW Post. To find a post in your area, click here or demeanour in a white pages of your internal phone directory. You might additionally call a VFW National Programs bureau during normal commercial operation hours during 816-968-1117. Mail entrance form as well as audio letter to a internal VFW post. Further directions have been listed upon a entrance form.
For some-more report or questions, hit VFW National Headquarters or VFW State Headquarters if we can’t find a internal VFW Post.
*Historically, a thesis (annually selected by a VFW commander-in-chief) is intentionally kept extended in range to concede a member coherence in understand to inspire originality. Since a VFW is a nationalistic organization, a annual thesis regularly will be associated to patriotism.
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